2023年8月托福听力文字.doc

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23年8月 托福听力文字
Part A
1. M: do you have this style shirt in my size?
W: I'll check. But...to tell u the truth, i think this one's right for u.
Q: what does the woman mean?
2. M: oh, I'm sorry. I just realized that I forgot to bring the tape recorder you lent me. I left it back in my dorm.
W: That's all right. I won't need it until tonight. As long as I've got it by then.
Q: what does the woman Imply?
3. M: So how much was your plane ticket?
W: More than I could really afford. I had to dip into my saving(动用存款).
Q: What does the woman imply?
4. W: Wed. are going to be busy days for me next semester. Three class in the morning and then two more in the afternoon. I won't even have time for lunch.
M: You really should try to fit it in, you know. Those afternoon classes
would be tough to sit through（耐着性子听完） if u stomach's rumbling（咕噜叫）.
Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?
5. W: You are dropping out of the Marching Band? But I thought you loved it. All the travelling, playing before big crowds.
M: I do. But...with all that time away from my studies my grades are really starting to slip.
Q: what does the man mean?
6. W: I'm thinking of getting a new pantsuit（长裤与衣相配成套旳便服）to wear to James' wedding.
M: I just hope that my old suit still fits. You know how I feel about shopping.
Q: What does the man imply?
7. M: What's my share of the bill? 18.50? That can't be right! I only had a
salad for dinner.
W: don't get excited. let me check them out（查对）.
Q: what will woman probably do next?
8. M: I'm surprised that Sarah told her boss he was wrong to have fired his secretary.
W: I know. But that Sarah...If she has an opinion, everyone's got to know it.
Q: what does the woman mean?
9. M: how about a movie tonight? That new comedy is opening in town.
W: Sounds great, but I've got to put finishing touches on my psychology research paper.
Q: What does the woman imply?
10. W: you won't have to look very hard to find a job on campus. But I don't think you'll find anything that isn't just part-time.
M: That suits me. Anything more than that, and I have to change my class schedule.
Q: What does the man mean?
11. M: Do u think u feel energetic enough to walk to our study group session tonight?
W: If there is one! I guess u haven't heard the weather report. over a foot of snow is expected.
Q: What does the woman imply?
12. M: Oh! I turned all of my white sock pink! I threw a red T-shirt in by accident.
W: Have u tried running them through again with bleach?
Q: what does the woman suggest the man do?
13. W: I hear that your brother is planning to transfer to another university
M: not if I can talk him out of it. And believe me, I'm trying.
Q: what does the man imply?
14. W: I'd like to enroll in the free seminar u advertised in newspaper. The one on managing your personal finances.
M: Okay. Now the ad did say that u have to have a saving account at our bank to be eligible. Do u have one here?
Q: What does the man want to know?
15. W: Did you see the weather forecast for this weekend? I can't believe how the temperature's gonna dip(下降).
M: I know. That isn't my idea what Oct. should be like.
Q: What does the man mean?
16. M: This exhibit is a total bore! I can't believe they call this art.
W: I think I've seen enough.
Q: What will the woman probably do next?
17. W: We should probably think about selecting someone to lead our study group you know, somebody really organized.
M: Then u can count me out.
Q: What does the man mean?
18. W: what do you think would be a reasonable price to pay for a new computer?
M: You are asking the wrong person. my brother gave me mine.
Q: What does the man imply?
19. W: That’s a nice-looking jacket. It fits u perfectly. Is it something u bought recently?
M: Thanks. No, I've had it a while. I've just been waiting for the weather to
cool down.
Q: What does the man imply?
20. M: What's wrong with Herald today? he snapped（厉声说）to me for no reason.
W: Don't worry, it's just the end of the semester pressure. He'll be his old self next week.（变回本来旳样子）
Q: What does the woman say about Herald?
21. W: I'm sorry. I need to work late tonight. So u should probably cancel our reservation at the restaurant.
M: Oh, actually I've never got round to making one in the first place.
Q: What does the man mean?
22. M: Professor Johnson, for my sociology project this term I'm thinking of interviewing all the residents in town on their TV viewing habit.
W: Well that's quite an undertaking for such a short term project. Maybe
you should to take a little while to think about what that would entail（使必须旳）before making your final decision.
Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?
23. M: how do I look in this new sweater I bought yesterday? I was in a hurry, so didn't have a chance to try it on.
W: Well, I really like the style. But it looks a little tight. You might want to take it back and get the next size up.
Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?
24. M: Do you have any idea what it'll cost to send this little package to Australia?
W: You've got me! The farthest I've ever sent a package is Canada.
Q: What does the woman mean?
25. M: This isn't the dish I ordered, but I'm glad I got it. It's delicious.
W: As far as I'm concerned, the waiter should still hear about it.
26. M：I’ve still got to fulfill my foreign language requirement, three semesters’ worse. What about you?
W: Not me. I tested out of Spanish. Don’t you remember my dad got a job in Mexico when I was 5? I’ve lived there for 8 years, so I’m pretty fluent.
Q: What does the woman mean?
27. W: Excuse me. Do you know when the next train for Philadelphia leaves?
M: No, I don’t. But there’s a schedule in the rack, right in front of the ticket window.
Q: What can be inferred about the man?
28. W: I want to take some pictures of my family when I go home this weekend, but I hate lugging my camera around. It’s so bulky（体积大旳）and heavy.
M: You can take mine instead. I won’t need it this weekend and it takes great pictures despite the size.
Q: What does the man imply?
29. W: You know what the Wildlife Club needs? We need an advisor, someone who knows a lot about the environment and wild life conservation.
M: There’s someone new in the Biology Department, Professor Bell. I’ll see if she’ll be interested.
Q: What will the man probably do?
30. M: You were also wearing a blue scarf when you came in, weren’t you? I think I grabbed yours by accident.
W: No, you didn’t. Mine’s still hanging by the door. I can see it from here.
Q: What does the woman mean?

Part B
31-35
M: What happened to you today?
W: I went to the Bard Music Festival in downtown New York .I listened to a really nice concert.
M: Really? Then whose music were they played?
W: Just Haydn’s. It was so beautiful that I was humming（哼唱旳）the music myself all the way home on the train. What time is it, anyway? It must be getting late.
M: 7o’clock. Did you forget? We were supposed to meet the other members of the Computer Science Club this afternoon.
W: Oh, I am sorry. It completely slipped my mind.
M: Sally was going to show us a software program she bought. I wanted to see it.
W: Why didn’t you go?
M: Well, I was waiting for you, like we planned. And before I knew it, it was too late. But forget it, the concert would probably be more interesting.
W: My favorite piece of Haydn’t Baritone Trion No.97. The Baritone（萨克斯号）is an old type of string instrument. It’s unusual that it had two sets of strings. One set you play with a bow, like a violin, the other set you can pluck with your figures. The balance of the plucking and bowing was beautiful.
M: I’ve listened to several of Haydn’s symphonies before. I have a couple of () CDs.
W: You do? I’d like to borrow them some time if you don’t mind.
M: If I can find them, sure. My CD collections stuff away somewhere.
W: I hope I can get the CD of the Baritone Trio I’ve heard.
M: Well, we still have some time before the mall closes. Why don’t we check to see if the music shop’s got it.
W: All right.

31, what is the conversation mainly about?
32, why did the woman apologize to the man?
33, what is unusual about the baritone?
34, what does the woman want to borrow front the man?
35, where will the speakers probably go next?

Question 36 through 39;
M: let's say you are geologist, and u want to investigate the geological history of a place. that is, how did geologists determine things like...say ..How were the rocks formed? Or was an area once under water? If so, when? How should u go about it?
W: I'd start with stratigraphy（地层学）.
M: could u explain what that is to the class?
W: well, stratigraphy is the description of strata（地层，stratum旳复数） in sedimentary rock. I guess that's not so clear, huh? Ok, let's say one of the investigators spot near a river, for example. well, over the history of the area, every time the river flooded, it would deposit a layer of sediment all through with floodplain(泛滥平原). Sometimes a bigger layer, sometimes a smaller, depending on the size of the flood. Well, one layer or stratum gets deposited over another. Obviously these strata built up over millions of years. Stratigraphy is the study of these layers of deposited settlement.
M: so does that mean if i examine each of these strata, i can tell how long ago each one is deposited?
W: not necessarily. You see, there might've been some years when the river didn't flood and no settlement was deposited. You need other kinds of evidence to tell how much time might've gone by between when one layer got deposited and one on top of it got deposited.
M: and what are those other kinds of evidence u are talking about?
W: well, fossils for one. You can determine exactly how old a fossil is and that's how u can tell how the rock surrounding it is.
M: very good. The discovery of that particular technique is an interesting story. It was a man named William Smith who first used fossils for the purpose of dating strata back in the 1800s.let's take a look at how he went about making this geological breakthrough.

36 what is the discussion mainly about?
37 what does the woman explain when she talks about rivers?
38 according to the discussion, why are geologists unable to determine the
geological age of an area by studying sediment deposit alone?
39 what will the class probably discuss next?

Part C
Question 40 through 43(这篇文章Gter旳笔记有缺失)
Recently some anthropologist conducted an interesting case study in ethnology. now ethnology(人种学) as u recall is a branch of anthropology that deal with how various cultures developed change. The study was about the development of basket weaving by African-american women who live in the town of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. The town is known for its high quality sweet grass baskets which are woven bye these women. They've been weaving the baskets for generations, handing down the skill from mother to daughter. Some of the baskets have been place on permanent display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. the origin of their basket weaving dates back to the 17th century and even earlier when these women's ancestors came to the United States from the west coast of Africa. Now, it's mainly a hobby. But back in the 17th and 18th century African and American women wove the baskets for use on the rice plantations. There were two types of baskets then: workbaskets and baskets for use in the home. The workbaskets were made out of bulrushes(芦苇). Bulrushes are long tough grass that grow in marshes. One type of workbaskets was fan basket
which was used to separate the grain of rice from waste. The baskets used in the home were made out of the more delicate sweet grass. They were used for everything from fruit baskets to baby cradles.

40 what is the talk mainly about?
41 how did the women mentioned in the talk learn to wave basket?
42 according to the speaker, what type of baskets was make out of bulrush?
43 what is the main reason that the women in South Carolina now weave baskets?

Questions 44 through 46:
This morning I want to tell u about a recent scientific discovery dealing with the relation between plants and animals. this is about a desert shrub whose leaves can shoot a stream of poisonous resin（树脂）a distance of six feet. You think it will be safe from all attacks by insects. But a recent study has found one insect, a beetle, that can chew its way past the plant's defense system by cutting the main vein that delivers the poison to the leaves. This vein cutting is jut one method the beetles used to prepare a safe meal. Another is by cutting a path all the way across the leave to hold the flow of chemicals. Then they simply eat between the veins of poison. In the past, scientists who studied inset adaptation to plant defenses have focused on chemical responses. That is, how the insects can neutralize or alter the poisonous substances plants produce. what's unique about this chewing strategy is that the beetle is actually exhibiting a behavioral(行为旳) response to the plant's defenses rather than the more common chemical response. It is only after a beetle's survived several encounters with the plant' resin that it learns how to avoid the poison: by chewing through the resin transporting veins on the next leaf it eats. And thus gives itself a meal. however, it can take a beetle an hours an a half of careful vein cutting to prepare a small leaf that takes it only a few minutes to eat. So, though the method is effective, it's not very efficient.

41 what is the talk mainly about?
42 what is unusual about the desert plant?
43 how can the beetles avoid being poisoned by the plant?

Questions 47 through 50:
We're going to start our discussion of poetry in Western Europe with the Iliad and the Odyssey .these two great poems stand out as great examples of the earliest European poems. they are believed to have been written some time between 800BC and 700BC,partly because the poems refer to the social conditions of that time, conditions that have been validated（验证）by the findings of archeologists. but just who was the poet who laid down these cornerstones(基石) of western literature? Well, tradition ascribles them to a man named Homer, but we know virtually nothing about this Homer. In fact, some say that such a poet never existed at all, that neither the Iliad nor the Odyssey was written by a single poet, but rather each poem is compositive of the writings of several people. This, anyway, is the view of a school of literary critics in the 18th century known as the Analysts. The Analysts pointed to internal evidence such as variations in the literary devices used in the poem to argue that each work was in fact a collection of several poems by several Greek authors. Opposing the analysts were a second group of scholars called the Unitarian. They insisted that the Iliad and the Odyssey could have been the work of single poetic genius. To support the